Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Though I speak, my grief is not assuaged; And though I forbear, what am I eased?
WEB
Even if I speak, my pain is not relieved, and if I hold back, how will it go away?
YLT
If I speak, my pain is not restrained, And I cease--what goeth from me?
DBT
If I speak, my pain is not assuaged; and if I forbear, what am I eased?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentJob — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.
- Author
- Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
- Date
- Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.